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SPSU Students Involved in STC Summit May 2009

The Society of Technical Communication (STC) International Summit was held in Atlanta, May 3^rd through May 6^th. STC Atlanta, as the host city chapter, held a Hospitality Reception on Monday, May 4^th at the Hyatt Regency, Atlanta. The event was for professional networking, making friends, and just having fun. SPSU students played an active role at the Summit.

Claudia and Howard Speck (STC President) introducing Networking game designed by Yilan

Yilan

and Robert Heinlein (SPSU Grad)
at
STC
Reception

Yilan and Robert Heinlein (SPSU Grad) at STC Reception

Isaac Jones with Atlanta STC members

This event featured a gamecard which everyone received as they arrived for the reception. The gamecard featured questions related to cities where there are STC Chapters. The idea of the game was to go around and meet other STC members and ask questions to find out answers to the questions. Prizes awarded to 10 game winners included vendor T-shirts, book bags and Atlanta STC souvenir cookbooks.

The gamecard and banner artwork was designed by SPSU’s own Yilan Jin. Yilan won a contest from four design finalists in Dr. Betty Oliver’s Applied Graphics class. The STC members from around the USA and the world were very impressed with Yilan’s work and many positive comments were made about this. The reception was a huge success and Yilan design really helped put Atlanta’s best foot forward. SPSU’s Tamara Henry also helped setup and decorate for the reception and greeted guests as they arrived.

SPSU students Tamara Herman, Yilan Jin, and Utoia Mims also helped man the STC Atlanta Hospitality Booth throughout the conference. They gave out brochures and information about Atlanta and answered visitors’ questions. For volunteering at the Summit, students were allowed to attend conference educational sessions free of charge. They did an excellent job and really benefitted from being involved with the Summit and meeting professional technical communicators.

SPSU graduate, Yina Li (now employed by Horizon International Software), was a co presenter at the conference with Dr. Carol Barnum. The two presented at an educational session on Translation, Localization, and Usability: Chinese Website Usability Study. This session presented the results of a usability study of an international hotel’s Chinese website. Included were the results of a heuristic evaluation and a usability test with bilingual English/Chinese speakers

Tamara and Yilan at STC Summit

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